Elgin Children's Foundation Inc
Knoxville, TN · EIN 46-1599287. Reported 137 grants totalling $5,026,932 to 52 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 52 distinct organizations, with 11% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 86% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $30,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $45,400; the smallest was $5,453 and the largest $152,763. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
2 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $25,283 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southeast South-Central Educational Cooperative | London, KY | $541,630 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Clay County Public Schools | Manchester, KY | $363,728 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Christian Charitable Foundation | Alpharetta, GA | $357,790 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Knox County Board of Education | Barbourville, KY | $223,782 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Emmanuel Methodist Church | Bluefield, VA | $207,951 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cumberland Valley Childrens Advocacy Center Inc | London, KY | $190,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lake Cumberland Childrens Advocacy Center | Jamestown, KY | $190,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Bell County Educational Foundation | Pineville, KY | $184,973 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alder Springs Baptist Church | Maynardville, TN | $181,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Leslie County Public Schools | Hyden, KY | $167,856 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Macedonia Baptist Church | Manchester, KY | $161,080 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Bible Ministries Inc | Townsend, TN | $157,070 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Middlesboro Independent Schools | Middlesboro, KY | $156,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Appalachian Life Quality Initiative | Oneida, TN | $125,168 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Owsley County Board of Education | Booneville, KY | $120,150 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Campbell County Childrens Center | La Follette, TN | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Child Abuse Reporting and Enforcement Center of Southwest Va | Richlands, VA | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Scott County Schools | Huntsville, TN | $112,455 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Center of the Cumberlands | Oneida, TN | $108,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Clay County Board of Education | Manchester, KY | $102,771 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Safe Harbor Child Advocacy Center Inc | Sevierville, TN | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Advocacy Programs of the Blue Ridge Inc | Rocky Mount, VA | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kentucky River Child Advocacy Center | Hazard, KY | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Appalachian Literacy Initiative | Bristol, TN | $66,955 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Leslie County Board of Education | Hyden, KY | $59,992 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Whitley County Board of Education | Williamsburg, KY | $52,009 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bluefield First United Methodist Church | Bluefield, VA | $51,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Child Advocacy Center of the Ninth Judicial Dist of Tennessee Inc | Lenoir City, TN | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Childrens Advocacy Centers of Virginia | Roanoke, VA | $48,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| New Testment Baptist Church | Maynardville, TN | $46,510 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Presbyterian Church | Hyden, KY | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Owsley County Public Schools | Booneville, KY | $44,866 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Campbell County Christian Learning Center | Lafollette, TN | $41,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Blount County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc | Maryville, TN | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mccreary County Board of Education | Stearns, KY | $30,259 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Nuture the Next | Nashville, TN | $28,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Corbin Independent Schools | Corbin, TN | $26,988 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Buchanan County Public Schools | Grundy, VA | $26,153 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Campbell Co Schools | Jacksboro, TN | $25,594 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Campbell Co Board of Education | Jacksboro, TN | $24,300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Callihan Baptist Church | Barbourville, KY | $24,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bluefield Church of God | Bluefield, VA | $22,260 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Central Presbyterian Church | Princeton, KY | $20,204 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kids Inc (twin Rocks Bible Camp) | Viper, KY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Patterson Dental Foundation | St Paul, MN | $17,756 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Callihan Missionary Baptist Church | Barbourville, KY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tennessee Chapter of Childrens Advocacy Centers | Nashville, TN | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Scripture Memory Mountain Mission Inc | Emmalena, KY | $10,150 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Williamsburg Independent School District | Williamsburg, KY | $7,290 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Laurel County Board of Education | London, KY | $6,422 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Knox County Schools | Knoxville, TN | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mel Leaman Free Clinic of Smyth County Inc | Marion, VA | $5,770 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
34 of 52 (65%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 52 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 32 | $1,003,984 | $27,150 |
| 2022 | 34 | $1,313,023 | $29,750 |
| 2023 | 35 | $1,340,325 | $28,300 |
| 2024 | 36 | $1,369,600 | $30,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
56% of its giving went to organizations in Kentucky. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $30,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Kentucky.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Elgin Children's Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 36 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 10118 Parkside Dr 105, Knoxville, TN, 37922.
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